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Stanza 1
The little old house was out with a little new shedIn front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped,
A roadside stand that too pathetically pled,
It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread,
But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports
The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint.
Read the above given stanza carefully and the questions given below:
Q.1. Name the poem and the poet.
Q.2. What pathetic request did the roadside stand seem to be making ?
Q.3. What is it that supports the flower of cities from 'sinking and withering faint' ?
Q.2. What pathetic request did the roadside stand seem to be making ?
Q.3. What is it that supports the flower of cities from 'sinking and withering faint' ?
Q.4. Where had the roadside stand been set up ?
Answers:
1. The name of the poem is 'A Roadside Stand'. The name of the poet is 'Robert Frost'
2. Poor farmers seemed to request the city people going that way not for a dole of bread. It ( stand) was put up to sell some vegetables.
3. It is the money that supports the flower of cities and gives them comfortable life.
4. It had been set up in front of an old house.
2. Poor farmers seemed to request the city people going that way not for a dole of bread. It ( stand) was put up to sell some vegetables.
3. It is the money that supports the flower of cities and gives them comfortable life.
4. It had been set up in front of an old house.
Stanza 2
The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,
Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts
At having the landscape marred with the artless paint
Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong
Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts.
The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,
Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts
At having the landscape marred with the artless paint
Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong
Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts.
Read the above given stanza carefully and the questions given below:
Questions:
1. Explain the first line of the extract.
2. How did one who looked aside a moment feel ?
3. What was thought to mar the landscape ?
4. What thing was offered for sale ?
Questions:
1. Explain the first line of the extract.
2. How did one who looked aside a moment feel ?
3. What was thought to mar the landscape ?
4. What thing was offered for sale ?
Answers:
1. Magnificent cars with rich people seated in them passed with their eyes fixed ahead. They didn't look right or left.
1. Magnificent cars with rich people seated in them passed with their eyes fixed ahead. They didn't look right or left.
2. He felt irritated that the beauty of the landscape had been destroyed.
3. The artless paint of signs on the roadside stand was thought to mar the beauty of the landscape.
4. Wild berries and vegetables were offered for sale.
Stanza 3
It is in the news that all these pitiful kin
Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store,
Where they won't have to think for themselves anymore.
It is in the news that all these pitiful kin
Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store,
Where they won't have to think for themselves anymore.
Read the above given stanza carefully and the questions given below:
Questions
1. Who have been referred to as 'pitiful kin' ?
2. What is in the news ?
1. Who have been referred to as 'pitiful kin' ?
2. What is in the news ?
3. Who will be bought out and from where?
4. How will it help them to be near the theatre and the store?
Answers
1. The poor and deprived farmers have been referred to as 'pitiful kin'.
2. It is in the news that the poor will be settled in villages close to the theater and market.
1. The poor and deprived farmers have been referred to as 'pitiful kin'.
2. It is in the news that the poor will be settled in villages close to the theater and market.
3.The poor farmers will be paid for their small holdings and taken away from there to be settled in Villages close to the cities.
4. They would not have to think for themselves .
Stanza 4
While greedy good - doer, beneficent beasts of prey.
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleep at night the ancient way.
While greedy good - doer, beneficent beasts of prey.
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleep at night the ancient way.
Read the above given stanza carefully and the questions given below:
Questions
1.Who have been called 'greedy good doers'?
2.What do 'beneficent beasts of prey' do?
3. Why are benefits enforced on the poor ?
4. What are the poor taught to do ?
Questions
1.Who have been called 'greedy good doers'?
2.What do 'beneficent beasts of prey' do?
3. Why are benefits enforced on the poor ?
4. What are the poor taught to do ?
Answers:
1 Capitalistic people who pretend to be worried about the poor are called 'greedy good-doers'
2. They make a show of helping the poor but exploit them for their own benefit.
3. Benefits are enforced on the poor. But the real advantage of these benefits reaches to the
rich themselves in the end.
4. They are taught to sleep peacefully at night, but in fact, all their sleep at night is destroyed
while the rich sleep peacefully all day.
2. They make a show of helping the poor but exploit them for their own benefit.
3. Benefits are enforced on the poor. But the real advantage of these benefits reaches to the
rich themselves in the end.
4. They are taught to sleep peacefully at night, but in fact, all their sleep at night is destroyed
while the rich sleep peacefully all day.
Stanza 5
Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear
The thought of so much childish longing in vain
The sadness that lurks in the open window there,
That waits all day in almost open prayer
For the squeal of brakes, the sound of a stopping car,
Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass,
Just one to inquire what a farmers prices are.
Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear
The thought of so much childish longing in vain
The sadness that lurks in the open window there,
That waits all day in almost open prayer
For the squeal of brakes, the sound of a stopping car,
Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass,
Just one to inquire what a farmers prices are.
Read the above given stanza carefully and the questions given below:
Questions:
1. What can the poet not bear?
2. What gives sadness and to whom?
3. What does the poor man wait for?
4. Why have the cars been called 'selfish' ?
Questions:
1. What can the poet not bear?
2. What gives sadness and to whom?
3. What does the poor man wait for?
4. Why have the cars been called 'selfish' ?
Answers:
1. He can't bear that poor farmers keep waiting all day for some car to stop.
2. Poor farmer keeps waiting all day , no car stops at his stand . It leaves the poor man in sadness.
1. He can't bear that poor farmers keep waiting all day for some car to stop.
2. Poor farmer keeps waiting all day , no car stops at his stand . It leaves the poor man in sadness.
3. The poor farmer waits for the squeal of brakes or for the sound of a stopping car.
4. The cars have been called selfish because none of them stop to buy something from the farmers.
Some Questions based on this stanza:
1. Name the poem and the poet of above stanza.
2. What does the poet feel himself?
3. What is the childish longing ?
4. Who waits and prays all day near the open window?
2. What does the poet feel himself?
3. What is the childish longing ?
4. Who waits and prays all day near the open window?
Answers:
1. The name of the poem is 'A Roadside Stand'. The name of the poet is 'Robert Frost'.
2. The poet sees how the poor man keeps waiting for city people to stop at his stand and buy something. The poet feels that he himself can hardly bear the pain of waiting in this manner.
3. The poor man hopes that some car would stop at his stand and buy something. This hope seems childish as not a single car stops there.
4. The poor farmer who has extended a stand in front of an old house waits and prays all the day.
4. The poor farmer who has extended a stand in front of an old house waits and prays all the day.
Stanza 6
And one did stop, but only to plow up grass
In using the yard to back and turn around:
And another to ask the way to where it was bound:
And another to ask could they sell it a gallon of gas
They couldn't (this crossly); they had none, didn't it see?
And one did stop, but only to plow up grass
In using the yard to back and turn around:
And another to ask the way to where it was bound:
And another to ask could they sell it a gallon of gas
They couldn't (this crossly); they had none, didn't it see?
Read the above given stanza carefully and the questions given below:
Questions
1. Why did the first of the cars stop there?
2. Why did the second one stop there?
3. Why did the third one stop at the stand ?
4. What made it cross?
Questions
1. Why did the first of the cars stop there?
2. Why did the second one stop there?
3. Why did the third one stop at the stand ?
4. What made it cross?
Answers
1. It stopped there to use the yard in order to turn back
2. It stopped there to ask the way to where it was bound.
3. Third stopped there to ask if they could sell him a gallon of petrol.
4. It was cross when they ask for gas not for vegetables at the stand.
1. It stopped there to use the yard in order to turn back
2. It stopped there to ask the way to where it was bound.
3. Third stopped there to ask if they could sell him a gallon of petrol.
4. It was cross when they ask for gas not for vegetables at the stand.
Stanza 7
No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
Or the voice of the country seems to complain
I can help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.
No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
Or the voice of the country seems to complain
I can help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.
Read the above given stanza carefully and the questions given below:
Questions:
Questions:
Q 1. What does the phrase 'The requisite lift of 'spirit' mean?
Q 2. What does the voice of the country complain?
Q.3. What could give the poet a great relief?
Q. 4.What is the central idea of these lines?
Q 2. What does the voice of the country complain?
Q.3. What could give the poet a great relief?
Q. 4.What is the central idea of these lines?
Answers
Ans. 1. Rich ruling class should have treated the poor in a way. But this lift of the spirit has not been found so far.
Ans.2 : The voice of the country complains that nothing substantial has been done to improve their likes.
Ans 3. He could get a great relief if the poor could be brought out of their pain at one stroke.
Ans. 4 The poet feels sad at the miserable condition of the poor people. He says that some urgent measures should be taken to improve their plight. He says that it will give him a great relief.
Ans. 1. Rich ruling class should have treated the poor in a way. But this lift of the spirit has not been found so far.
Ans.2 : The voice of the country complains that nothing substantial has been done to improve their likes.
Ans 3. He could get a great relief if the poor could be brought out of their pain at one stroke.
Ans. 4 The poet feels sad at the miserable condition of the poor people. He says that some urgent measures should be taken to improve their plight. He says that it will give him a great relief.
SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS (30-40 words)
Q : The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out ? What was their complaint about ?
Ans : The following lines show the complaint of the city folk
'......out of sorts
At having the landscape marred with the artless paint
Of signs.....'
The city people thought that the artless paint of signs made at the stand spoiled the scenic beauty
of the landscape. On seeing it, they felt out of sorts.
(Out of sorts... - परेशानी होना)
Ans : The following lines show the complaint of the city folk
'......out of sorts
At having the landscape marred with the artless paint
Of signs.....'
The city people thought that the artless paint of signs made at the stand spoiled the scenic beauty
of the landscape. On seeing it, they felt out of sorts.
(Out of sorts... - परेशानी होना)
Q: What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
Ans:
Those who had put up the roadside stand were poor farmers. The rich city people kept going up and down in their cars all day. Poor people wanted to earn some money from them. They did not want any dole of bread from them. They wanted to sell their produce and earn some money from them.
Ans:
Those who had put up the roadside stand were poor farmers. The rich city people kept going up and down in their cars all day. Poor people wanted to earn some money from them. They did not want any dole of bread from them. They wanted to sell their produce and earn some money from them.
Q 3. The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.
Ans.
The poet uses phrases to describe such people as 'greedy good-doers' and 'beneficent beasts of prey'. Soothe the poor out of their wit. They teach them to sleep at night. In fact , they destroy all sleeping at night. They themselves sleep all day. What the poet means to say is that their plight would soon be same again. They will loot all the money from them in the name of comfortable and luxurious things.
The poet uses phrases to describe such people as 'greedy good-doers' and 'beneficent beasts of prey'. Soothe the poor out of their wit. They teach them to sleep at night. In fact , they destroy all sleeping at night. They themselves sleep all day. What the poet means to say is that their plight would soon be same again. They will loot all the money from them in the name of comfortable and luxurious things.
Q. 4. What is the childish longing that the poet refers to ? Why is it vain?
Ans. Sitting by the open window, the poor farmer keeps waiting all day. He keeps a childish longing in his heart and prays for some car to stop at his stand. But hardly any car stops there. With heavy heart, he waits all day. He wants to earn some city money so that he also can live a better life . His prayer proves vain when no one comes to buy the things he has put for sale.
Q. 5. Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of plight of the rural poor?
Ans. The poet says:
'Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear
The thought of so much childish longing in vain,
The sadness that lurks in the open window there,
That is all day in almost open prayer.'
'Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear
The thought of so much childish longing in vain,
The sadness that lurks in the open window there,
That is all day in almost open prayer.'
Q. 6. Where was the roadside stand put up and what for?
Ans.
The stand was in the form of a little new shed. It was built in front of an old house at the edge of the road. City people drive fast that way in their polished cars. The poor owner of the stand had offered his agricultural products to sell . He wished to earn some money by selling things.
The stand was in the form of a little new shed. It was built in front of an old house at the edge of the road. City people drive fast that way in their polished cars. The poor owner of the stand had offered his agricultural products to sell . He wished to earn some money by selling things.
Question 7:
What was the plea of the folk who
What was the plea of the folk who
had put up the roadside stand?
ANSWER:
The poor farmers requested the
passerby city dwellers to stop at
their roadside stalls and buy
something. They wanted to get a
little earning for their living. They not only just hoped to make their ends meet but also to be able of afford some comfort in life. They remained in prayer by the open window. They hoped some cars to stop at their stand and enquire the prices of their produce .
Question : 8:
What were the various things put up at the stand for sale ?
passerby city dwellers to stop at
their roadside stalls and buy
something. They wanted to get a
little earning for their living. They not only just hoped to make their ends meet but also to be able of afford some comfort in life. They remained in prayer by the open window. They hoped some cars to stop at their stand and enquire the prices of their produce .
Question : 8:
What were the various things put up at the stand for sale ?
Ans:
They offered wild berries in wooden quarts. There were crook-necked golden squash. These squashes had silvery warts on them. They also had some pictures of a marvelous mountain scene.
They offered wild berries in wooden quarts. There were crook-necked golden squash. These squashes had silvery warts on them. They also had some pictures of a marvelous mountain scene.
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